Quotes About Astonished

When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.

I was shocked when Raj Kumar Santhoshi approached me for 'Ghatak.'

Thirty-four of the thirty-five Creek leaders who signed the treaty of surrender had supported the United States during the war, and they were understandably astonished and embittered to find themselves stripped of much of their land.

When I first read the Bridgerton' script, it blew me away.

yet the heart is suddenly shattered, the body falls in separate motions and the blood is astonished to be freed on the air; the brain squanders its few precious memories and, puzzled, dies.

And had rarely thought about since.) It was ridiculous to stand here, so astonished, so slow-witted, so perversely vulnerable . . . yet what other attitude was appropriate, what other attitude would not violate the queer sense of the sacred, the otherworldly, that the house had evoked?

Oh, man. I'm shucked. I'm shucked for good.

Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.

The horse, it must be said, was quite surprised.

La vita sara' molto meno strana senza di te! Arthur era sbalordito - Sai - disse - credo sia la cosa piu' bella che mi sia mai stata detta.

That's queer," I ejaculated suddenly beneath my breath.

For an instant his mind went completely blank as all the blood left his head at the image.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act.

John Stuart Mill was already able to say: 'The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't.

Jeffrey felt too blindsided

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.